Meaning and function of Spanish formulemes and pragmatemes vs. illocutionary verbs

From the perspective of Pragmatics, some scholars claim that taxonomy illocutionary acts should be revised. The aim this paper is to propose such a review by means research field in which Lexicography and Pragmatics overlap. As we attempt prove, formulemes offer advantage being narrower study than free utterances. Formulemes ( Have nice day! ) have been defined within Meaning Text-Theory as type cliché Pragmatemes Happy birthday! formuleme more restricted extralinguistic situation (someone’s birthday). E-dictionaries require formal method express both meaning function formulemes, yet lexicographic development may well elicit problems. Within Meaning-Text Theory pragmatemes formalized date Lexical Functions. However, observed tool unsatisfactory for didactic purposes. Therefore, Spanish e-dictionary Diretes , attached each one verb call “Pragmatic Function” (such wish congratulate examples above). In order identify whether formalization Pragmatic Functions could possible successful, two hundred (sixty them pragmatemes). Although project progress, up now any kind (being or not pragmateme) was successfully analyzed thirty created ad hoc . useful only when teaching Spanish, but also revise list verbs from Phraseology Lexicography.